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Many of the prayers associated with St. Patrick have a wonderful and unique approach to prayer, faith, and the world. The following is famous one, adapted from St, Patrick’s “Breastplate Prayer” and used as part of daily morning prayer and devotion by the Northumbria Community in Scotland.
There are hundreds of passages about prayer in the Bible: teachings about prayer, mentions of prayer, and, of course, actual prayers. These are excellent resources for learning about the types of prayers, styles, content, when and where, and so much more. This series, Praying Through the Bible, examines each instance of a prayer passage, looking…
The ancient Celtic Christians felt keenly the importance of beginnings and endings. “Thin times,” they called them, when the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual world were thinner than usual. Christmas, when God entered the world in a unique way. The end of the year, when the planet finished one cycle and began the next. These were sacred moments, and many of the prayers reflect these concepts. Here are a three you can use for these times.
From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!1 In our modern culture in the West, or most of it, this night is known as Halloween, and it is largely a harmless time of dressing up and getting candy—all pushed by commercial culture. Connected with…
This is a project I have worked on since 2009 using all the research and writing I had done on prayer. I read through the Old and New Testaments to locate every biblical prayer, mention of prayer, or implication of prayer in the Bible. My idea was to write a “devotional commentary” on each one, as a resource to…
My most recent book, Prayer in the Ancient Stoic Tradition: A Preliminary Study with Comparisons to Prayer in the New Testament, is now available on the Apple iBooks store for the iBooks app and iPads. Click here for more. Paperback version here. Kindle version here.
It is often said that to live in Christ is to live a cross-centered life. What does that mean? Some believers emphasize that “spirituality” primarily consists of “following God’s path” or “seeking God’s will” for our life. Though there is truth to those ideas, they run the danger of putting us in the driver’s seat,…
Book review of Ancient Collections and Other Prayers, for the Praying Through the Bible Project by Mark McDowell.
A story about prayer, a cowherd, and a Jewish sage, reaching us that prayer is more about relationship than duty.
